Eksempler på brug af These summits på Engelsk og deres oversættelser til Dansk
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That has been the background to these summits.
We tend, at these summits, to praise the Commission and to criticise the Council.
I think that the Council should evaluate andconsider what role these summits should have.
These summits were actually marked by a change of tone and confirmed that our priority was the fight against unemployment.
We should be no under illusions, however:the method by which these summits are organised is now in crisis.
These summits are frequently derided as high-level talking shops that too often produce little more than hot air.
Mr President, Commissioner Patten hit the nail on the head when he said that the danger of these Summits is that they might turn into talking shops.
These summits have reminded us that there is an urgent need for our policies to become more ambitious, coherent and effective.
But it really is important that we recognise that the whole world looks at these summits and looks at the moral leadership that we can offer, not only at EU level but also the US Administration.
Perhaps these summits are a reminder of the EU's own in which the decisions are based on wanting to achieve something later.
We have had a forty-year Cold War between the Soviet Union and the democratic world, andI think there is an urgent need to avoid wasting opportunities like these summits to lift the lid on this major problem.
The problem is not that we have these summits, though I wish the media would focus rather more on what is actually discussed at them rather than what happens on the fringes.
That is typical of the way human rights are breached in Chechnya. I would be very pleased, Mr President, if in future the issue of Chechnya could be addressed in writing in the communiqués issued following these summits.
I just saw the problem's being that, without these summits, we could not ensure that the debate continued but, that being said, Mr Deva has of course shown us one of the ways in which it can be.
Indeed, since the events of 11 September, the significance of these topics has increased enormously. Nevertheless,both the rationale underlying the organisation of these summits and the views of many of the peaceful demonstrators remain current.
Both of these summits have laid solid foundations for the activities of the countries that will hold the presidency in the future and for increasing the influence of the European Union in those parts of the world.
Education has been high on the agenda for the Lisbon, Stockholm and Barcelona European Councils, and, with the adoption of Mr Mauro's report, we are taking a step, albeit a modest one,in the right direction of complying with the important decisions taken at these summits.
And, quite frankly,I want to say before this House that all these summits we have held, which ought to have shown increasingly great attention towards the Developing World, have not yielded the desired results.
Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, although I do not completely share the concern expressed by Mr Nogueira and Mr Ortuondo,it would be good if it could be made clear in Parliament regarding what importance should be attached to these summits held by just a few Member States.
However, in all truth it must be said that decisions taken at these summits and any that may be taken at Feira will remain little more than aspirational until the Union has the necessary resources to implement such a policy.
The European Union also made a decisive contribution in terms of setting ambitious objectives for the two previous summits andactively participating in the preparatory work for these summits, in order to achieve not only declarations of principle, but also concrete results and commitments.
In addition to setting a three-year frequency for these summits, sectoral ministerial and expert meetings are planned for the various areas of the action plan, together with regular contacts between the Commissions of the European Union and the African Union.
This is, I acknowledge, easier said than done, but we should try to resist the temptation- andI know that Secretary of State Albright shares this view- for these summits to get excessively entangled in the nitty-gritty of our daily political and economic relationships.
Despite the hot wind that blows around many of these summits, success was achieved and it was achieved because the core principles of the European Union- i.e. compromise, consensus, understanding and tolerance- were brought together under your great stewardship, Chancellor Merkel.
It foresees biennial summits of Heads of Government, and the establishment of a co-Presidency(i.e. a president from Europe and a president from the Arab/Muslim side)to manage these summits and annual Foreign Affairs ministerial meetings, to sectoral ministerial meetings as well as senior officials and Euromed Committee meetings.
The legitimacy of these summits is not in question but, quite apart from the fact that they have no real influence, they do suffer from a terrible deficit of representation- and by that I mean not just the representation of the poorest countries- which is a very serious problem- but, for example, the way the European Union itself is represented.
Finally, Mr President, despite the suspicion andthe constant doubt as to whether these summits can achieve concrete results, I believe that the Madrid Summit has achieved complete, tangible and thorough results and that it represents a very reasonable balance between what is desirable and what is possible, between pragmatism and idealism.
However, as is often the case with these summits, the celebratory final declarations conceal a reality which is much more banal: the Fifteen have not succeeded in establishing a common policy and the progress made with the unveiling of rights does not take away from the need to tackle the practical problems encountered by millions of families and entire categories of producers and workers.
Mr President, in our debates about these summits, you will find if you go back over 10 years that many ideas, many similar plans or proposals have come forward from Members within this House, from members of the Council and also from Commissioners, and, if anything, the last year has proven one thing to me, namely that when the Union acts together in solidarity with big plans and big ambitions, it moves the world.